MOTU MX4

Meet the new instrument plug-in powerhouse for your studio. Inspired by legendary subtractive synthesizers, MX4 combines several core synthesis techniques in a unified, hybrid synthesis engine that delivers fresh and vintage sounds alike. As you explore its many banks and hundreds of presets, you’ll soon rely on MX4 as your “go-to” instrument. Fat basses, nasty leads, analog pads, vintage electronica — it’s all at your fingertips and conveniently saved with your host application projects for instant recall.

Tweaking sounds is fast and easy with clearly presented controls in one window — but with a depth and sophistication true synth programmers will appreciate. Create your music with pristine 32-bit sound quality, unlimited voices and unlimited polyphony (as much as your host computer allows). MX4’s flexible programming and advanced modulation architecture provide the intimacy of a vintage synth, the flexibility of a modular synth, and the innovation of a virtual synth.

Specifications

• Multi-architecture synthesis engine — wavetable, frequency modulation (FM), amplitude modulation (AM) & analog emulation.
• Unlimited voices, polyphony and instantiations (as many as your host computer allows).
• Sample-accurate playback (with host applications that support this OS X feature).
• Plug-in convenience — all settings are saved with host software projects for instant recall.
• Modulatable effects – built-in chorus and delay effects are integrated into MX4’s modulation architecture and are saved as part of the patch.
• Three wavetable oscillators — choose from dozens of wavetables or create your own.
• Audio input — process any audio signal with MX4’s flexible synthesis engine in real time.
• Modulatable waveform symmetry — create and automate dynamic changes in harmonics.
• Oscillator sync — create hard sync effects, just like the legendary Sequential Circuits Prophet Five™ and other classic polysynths.
• Frequency modulation (FM) — oscillator 3 serves as an FM source for oscillator 1, oscillator 2 and the filters.
• Two resonant multimode filters — use low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and notch filters with 4 slope settings for a total of 16 different filter types. Create a wide variety of vintage keyboard sounds. Or stack both filters for 48dB per octave.
• Variable Filter Topology™ — use 14 different filter and distortion configurations to produce over 3,000 different filter topologies, before you even begin tweaking filter parameters.
• Six variable waveshape LFOs — each includes adjustable symmetry, rate delay, fade & phase.
• Four DADSHR envelopes. Envelope time segments adjustable from 0 to 20 seconds.
• Modulation sources — all continuously variable parameters, including LFOs and envelopes, can be modulated by many sources, including track automation, MIDI controllers, LFOs & envelopes. Simply choose a source from a menu and then option-click the MX4 knob or fader that you wish to control with it.
• Open modulation architecture — each source can modulate an unlimited number of parameters simultaneously, providing the highest degree of programming flexibility possible. Conversely, any parameter can be simultaneously modulated by multiple sources.

Plug-in formats

• MAS (OS X)
• RTAS (OS X)
• Audio Units (OS X)